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The Means Are the Ends—for Lent 1C
In the temptation in the wilderness, we get to see the challenge of power — not for Jesus exactly, but for every one of us instead.
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True Abundance
The return of temptation is a reminder of what our resistance to temptation is really about. Keeping faith in a life full of hope.
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The real temptation
Stories of Jesus’s temptation are great opportunities for us to examine what tempts us. It goes much deeper than we usually think.
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Into the Wild
Mark doesn’t tell us what is tempting Jesus in the wilderness. But we know what it is about. Because we know what tempts us.
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At the root of all temptation
When we address the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness in the midst of church, do we dare confront what is at the root of it all?
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Between the Last Sunday of Epiphany and Lent 1 (Year B)
As we prepare to enter into the season of Lent, our ongoing story changes its context—and so do we. Here’s what to keep in mind.
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Temptation—what is within our power?
There’s a way we talk about temptation. We construct it as an all-consuming force we are powerless against. It isn’t.
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The Time of Temptation
In the Passion, we receive a story of innocence murdered. But that story’s foundation is all so much temptation.